Communicator is the preferred way of dialog between developers in the organization I work in. The program, however, has some screwed up default settings: For instance, when you paste code into a conversation, there are often changes so that code is replaced with emoticons.

This is highly annoying, and i want to turn off emoticons/smileys completely.

Thanks for posting the link. There is a setting DisableEmoticons mentioned in the link, but no explanation on how to use it. Is there a property file i can modify before startup? or is it an administrator-only thing. (the link mentions something about an administrator)
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Jesper Rønn-JensenOct 17 '11 at 9:22

It's in the Lync Management Shell, so typically only an admin would have access.
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meatspaceJan 30 at 15:57

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In Communicator's Tools->Options menu, on the "General" tab, there is a checkbox called "Show emoticons in instant messages".

Deselecting this will cause emoticons to not appear in your Communicator. Of course you will still need your colleagues to do the same, if they don't want code "corrupted" in their instances of Communicator.

I will not accept this answer. Since i am not an administrator. And i will not solve this for everyone in my company. It will simply not be accepted by it department. The solution I am looking for has to be simpler.
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Jesper Rønn-JensenOct 17 '11 at 9:24

Above "Show Emoticons.." in settings used to reset after next login for me.
I found a permanent solution.. open registry (regedit), search for "ShowEmoticons" modify value data of all communicator related values to 0. You're done!